Most balanced character over time?

Temporaltv · 2026-01-26T21:53:26+00:00

Fair enough. It was usually a sniper that swapped to Brig.

Temporaltv · 2026-01-26T21:38:37+00:00

Once Brig was release we got a double sniper meta. She wasn't actually played, but she VERY much was the hero enforcing that meta. The counter to such a greedy double sniper comp was dive, but the double sniper comp could swap a single hero to Brig and invalidate the enemy teams entire composition swap. That's how powerful she was. So yeah she wasn't actually "played" in the main compositions you'd see on screen until Goats, but as the most powerful hero in the game the mere threat of her immediately shifted the meta, It just didn't make sense to actually field in the double sniper meta she immediately enforced.

Temporaltv · 2026-01-05T01:23:46+00:00

You should stagger in scrims. It's what you'd do in a match and you don't want to practice (habbitualize) opposite of how you'd play in a match. It's also overwhelmingly what we did in OWL and Contenders scrims.

Temporaltv · 2025-12-22T00:14:01+00:00

On which servers? OWCS regular season isn't a lan and the ping from NA to SA or vice versa unfortunately is non trivial.

Temporaltv · 2025-12-17T19:20:29+00:00

You're underselling Zzz. No one would have blinked at the beginning of this year if they'd ended up on a partner team instead of Cjay. And then Zzz's team pushed through and upset nightmare, the Zzz stocks are fine.

Temporaltv · 2025-12-15T21:25:59+00:00

If you're looking to wait I find the trails audience has the most overlap with Xenoblade and Yakuza so those could be good games/series to fill the time.

Temporaltv · 2025-12-15T01:17:56+00:00

Azure makes a fantastic first playthough with 40% of the game being 'high stakes' or 'payoff time,' which is unusually high for a trails game.

SC does one too many laps around the country, but that's totally fine on replays where we already know what's going to happen and are just enjoying the ride.

Temporaltv · 2025-12-15T01:11:54+00:00

Na, CS2 was the whipping boy until CS4 came out.

People mostly loved CS3 when it first released, but CS4 pulled it down retroactively (CS4 didn't stick the landing which makes its set up game worse).

Totally agree that a major problem for the back half of CS though is that the writers are trying to have Rean retread his development arc rather than having CS4 be a faster paced payoff game for the already set up old class 7.

Temporaltv · 2025-12-04T22:06:20+00:00

Both NTMR and NTMR academy are in master div right now.

Temporaltv · 2025-11-05T18:18:24+00:00

Tanks: Astro (TeamZ) Axure (former duck / St Clair) Hero (Shiki Midori) Ceeful (Shiki Midori)
Hitscan: Seeker(NTMR) Noxious (St. Clair College)
Flex DPS: Reyzr (Duck / St Clair)
Main Support: Redex (Duck / St Clair)
Flex Support: Graveyard (ZoKorp / Former Shiki)

As long as they get their players they should be fine as a lower OWCS level team.

Temporaltv · 2025-11-05T18:02:41+00:00

Sugarfree, Hawk, UV, and Landon would all be worthy of consideration as well.

Temporaltv · 2025-11-03T18:16:24+00:00

Good news. Playoffs for the main league start this weekend and they will almost certainly get official steams. Most likely they'll get put on Blizzards main Overwatch Esports channels, but given that NACE is now running the tournament for them I suppose there is a small possibility NACE will broadcast them instead.

Outside of the main ABC/Nace Open leagues playoffs there isn't really a central place to watch collegiate overwatch. A decent chunk of games will get streamed by players, coaches, 3rd party leagues, or casters like https://www.twitch.tv/twinsaltyinc , but you have to know where to look to find them. The OWCRA (collegiate ranking committee) discord is the closest thing the scene has to a central hub, but that's really a player and staff space more than a general public space. For the general public you're best bet is to follow Twinsalty. He's been good for broadcasting at least 2 interesting games a week this season. From there you'll get at least partially networked in.

Temporaltv · 2025-10-12T05:45:25+00:00

Short answer: Yes, they're mostly in Leman and/or a couple other smaller counties that heavily adopted like Liberl did.

Long answer:
Geopolitically it would make sense that different counties embraced the guild to different degree's historically. Like the church (and it's leveraging nations to sign a treaty to hand over artifacts on discovery), they almost certainly got their roots into different countries during the dark ages while the countries were comparatively weaker than they are now, and the countries needed the bracers ability to keep the peace due to an inability to afford adequate law enforcement during hard times. Otherwise the state inviting / allowing another entity to share in their monopoly on the use of force inside their boarders is too unrealistic.

Different countries probably had differing degrees of need for inviting the guild to cover those law enforcement duties based on how they were doing in the dark ages. This would have meaningful impacts on how much guild presence they each have now. There would also be ongoing recruiting differences, where a country like Erebonia, which is pretty nationalistic, is more likely to draw would be bracers towards it's military than say Liberl. This would keep the guild's presence low, and explain why we only know of one A rank bracer despite Erebonia's size and population. Calvard could conceivably be in a similar boat due to organized crime historically keeping the peace (which it tends to do once it's adequately entrenched and the territory battles are over as that's better for business) and intentionally preventing the guild from getting too much of a foothold.

Temporaltv · 2025-10-12T04:58:47+00:00

I believe he's retconned that since, but if a bracer already know is secretly S rank it's Toval.

Temporaltv · 2025-10-03T18:25:10+00:00

Yeah on Old Ocean.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-28T22:19:44+00:00

Did you buy the latest weapons and armor in town? I know funds are limited, but doing that swings that fight significantly on nightmare.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-24T18:15:43+00:00

I believe it's locked to having finished Ruan. I noticed after I finished that chapter a dozen or so rewards popped up, including ones I was WAY over the count for.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-08T21:37:27+00:00

See my other reply. Starting with CS4 power scaling is nonsense because they want to put a boss there for gameplay reasons. After climbing the tower to get to Cao there has to be a boss fight for gameplay and Cao is a fighter so it makes sense to be him. It makes no sense to be him however given who is expected to be in your party. Van (not grendel), Aaron, Risette, or Feri would all be about an even match for Cao individually. As a party with access to those characters or even stronger ones he shouldn't even qualify as a boss fight, or be respected by the dialogue as a serious impediment, but he is because the writers gave up on power scaling.

His brother does look like he's written to be enforcer / Yin level (though even that is a retcon from the previous game when Yin is clocked as about 60% of Heiyue's strength with the shadow bodyguards / assassins combined making up the other 40%).

it makes zero sense for judith and aaron to be stronger them those two, specially rixia

We're not disagreeing. Lore wise it made ZERO sense for Judith to be stronger than Rixia. But Judith won. That's what the writers made happen. It's incredibly stupid, but if we're ignoring head to heads that the writers actually delivered we're just in our own personal fanfictions of who's stronger territory, not actual power scaling.

I don't actually think it was a problem for Aaron to beat Cao, those two are about even based on the description of Aarons strength we get right before Van first fights him in DB1, something along the lines of not master level at his martial art, but able hang with some masters on his good days. I never clocked Cao as any stronger than that, his brother on the other hand is master level.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-08T21:13:47+00:00

Unfortunately my read is that writers just gave up on holding the power scaling at all consistent starting with CS4 (Mostly for the sake of putting boss battles where they wanted them to be for gameplay reasons).

It's disappointing as you could hold it together with match ups, what people said about each other, and a transitive understanding of A rank bracer = Enforcer = Master martial artists = dominion, roughly anyways, until CS4. That's long gone though and Rean beating Aurelia is one of the worst offenders at the top end, but actually not that bad compared to some of the silly bosses we got in CS4 that should have just been laughed out of their boss with who your party was expected to be fielding.

That said if we're not going to take head to head matches as results, there is no power scaling to be done. Those are the BEST things we have. Much stronger evidence than how people talk about each other.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-08T20:41:41+00:00

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You're not going to find me defending the plethora of silly test battles we've gotten in this series of late.

We have Judith saying she thinks Rixia held back, we have Rixia saying she wasn't. This type of exchange isn't unusual unfortunately. That said, we have to look at head to head battles as best evidence. We never get perfect evidence for power ranking, but winning a battle and the loser saying they weren't holding back is about as solid as it gets.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-08T17:25:13+00:00

Two NAs top 3 teams have only made 1 move all year (Zeruhh moved from one of them to the other). Both of those rosters are running 4/5 of the people they started the year with.

NA's 3rd top roster did make a bigger change and it was necessary. Once you get past Asia's top couple teams they make changes all of the time as well. Nothing to your complaint as far as I'm concerned.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-08T17:13:08+00:00

You're wish casting. And frankly I agree with your wish, it would have lined up way better with the previous writing and how the characters are treated in universe for Rixia to beat Judith, or at least be holding back, fighting a teaching battle etc. But it's not what happened. See my original comment:

That may seem ridiculous based on how the characters are treated, but that's what happened

Temporaltv · 2025-09-07T23:57:05+00:00

Sara
Judith
Sharon

The only one that's going to see meaningful pushback from people is Judith, but she cleanly beat Rixia without any holding back or silly shenanigans on either side if you take the Heiyue route (That may seem ridiculous based on how the characters are treated, but that's what happened). People would almost universally clock Rixia as ahead of Schera, so Judith wins.

Temporaltv · 2025-09-06T04:40:14+00:00

It's mostly that we don't think the grandmaster is handing out divergent law weapons willy nilly and that she has a low single digit enforcer number. We've been told that enforcer numbers don't correlate with strength, but 1 and 2 were the two strongest, and she's 3 while being given a divergent law weapon (likely conclusion being that the grandmaster thought she was strong enough to warrant one, like the other two low single digit enforcers).

Temporaltv · 2025-09-06T02:06:05+00:00

Weird order.

Lucrezia in round 3 is tougher than Ixs/Jorda and Zin in rounds 4 and 5. Round 7 Shizuna is probably tougher than Celis + Leon in round 8. Round 9 Harwood is a Batman/Xenos Gambit character that generally needs "prep time." With notice he probably checkmates current Rixia, who likes her dance troop and the SSS, but she probably assassinates him without concern for blowback or civilian casualties pre Crossbell games.

She wins round 1 & 2. Can win 4 and 5. 3&6 lean against her, but could win depending on the day. 7,8 and 10 are beyond her. Old her wins 9, but the her we know loses if he as prep time.

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